Civil Society Considerations on UN CT Global Strategy

Human Security Collective is a signatory to a letter sent to the UN Secretary General raising concerns about the UN Global Counter Terrorism Strategy from a civil society point of view. The letter highlights the following about the UN Strategy:

insufficient attention to the important role that civil society plays in both PVE and counter-terrorism and the need for the United Nations to continue to champion a “whole-of-society” approach to address these challenges

failure to emphasize sufficiently the centrality of protecting human rights when addressing the threats of violent extremism and terrorism

need for the strategy to be informed by evidence-based monitoring and evaluation efforts so that any UN-funded assistance programmes in this field are effective and not doing inadvertent harm